Cubit is an English word. Below you'll find 5 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Cubit meaning
- The distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger used as an informal unit of length.
- Any of various units of length approximating this distance, usually around 35–60 cm.
- Synonym of ulna, the bone of the human forearm.
Synonyms of Cubit
Using Cubit
- The main meaning on this page is: The distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger used as an informal unit of length. | Any of various units of length approximating this distance, usually around 35–60 cm. | Synonym of ulna, the bone of the human forearm.
- Useful related words include: linear unit.
Context around Cubit
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 3 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Cubit
- In this selection, "cubit" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, pechus, astronomical and term stand out and add context to how "cubit" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include in a cubit the seked and the astronomical cubit pēchus the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "cubit" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with cubit
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The cubit could vary considerably due to the different sizes of people. (12 words)
He also used the Babylonian unit pechus ("cubit") of about 2° or 2.5°. (14 words)
Since there were 7 palms in a cubit, the seked was 7 times the cotangent. (15 words)
Latitude by length of longest day, and by sun's elevation on shortest day Strabo uses the astronomical cubit (pēchus, the length of the forearm from the elbow to the tip of the little finger) as a measure of the elevation of the sun. (44 words)
The term "cubit" in this context is obscure; it has nothing to do with distance along either a straight line or an arc, does not apply to celestial distances, and has nothing to do with the gnōmōn. (37 words)
Since there were 7 palms in a cubit, the seked was 7 times the cotangent. (15 words)
Example sentences (5)
He also used the Babylonian unit pechus ("cubit") of about 2° or 2.5°.
Latitude by length of longest day, and by sun's elevation on shortest day Strabo uses the astronomical cubit (pēchus, the length of the forearm from the elbow to the tip of the little finger) as a measure of the elevation of the sun.
Since there were 7 palms in a cubit, the seked was 7 times the cotangent.
The cubit could vary considerably due to the different sizes of people.
The term "cubit" in this context is obscure; it has nothing to do with distance along either a straight line or an arc, does not apply to celestial distances, and has nothing to do with the gnōmōn.